Steve Jobs and his teams made a lot of the right decisions. It’s evident in the way that Steve Jobs can talk about topics like what is covered above, topics that we take for granted today and have accepted into our lives. Jobs would talk effortlessly in a matter-of-fact manner, years and sometimes a full decade before the ideas had matured. It’s really incredible to look back at in retrospect.
Most of the time the “solutions” to quantifying efficient production of programmers is, for the best of us, a gradual descent into frequent focus destroying forms of micromanagement - and for the worst of us this is a welcomed phenomenon. If you want to do your work, it sucks. If you don’t actually want to do your work, it’s great.
For non programmers, of course, the idea that someone valuable is doing something that they have no control over is absolutely terrifying.